WUWT Exclusive
Amidst the torrent of news of the Trump team flurry of Executive Orders, personnel firings, and policy changes, being reported on X, I noticed one small thing not being reported.
Monday morning.
We create opportunities for Indigenous people at NASA to diversity worldviews within Earth Science.
Because Earth Science needs shamans and medicine bags.
Another excerpt, emphasis mine.
Building Relationships
The Indigenous Peoples Initiative connects, cultivates, and sustains relationships. Our team is focused on engagement, dialogue, and two-way learning through connecting with natural resource managers and community members at conferences and meetings, through co-hosted community events where involving youth and elders, and through listening sessions around EO needs for landscape monitoring and mapping. We believe that “relationships move at the speed of trust” and are dedicated to building lasting relationships with Indigenous communities by creating a trusted, reliable, and Indigenous-centric geospatial community with a focus on environmental justice and climate issues on Indigenous lands and territories.
Today.
Under Construction!
In the past we’ve noticed this waste of taxpayer dollars and corruption of science. It is a joy to see this blight ripped out by the roots.
That one is still available. https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/incorporating-indigenous-knowledges-federal-research-and-management-understanding-new
With luck, not for long.
I’m sure there are hundreds if not thousands of other examples of unreported accomplishments. The Trump administration seems to be returning sanity to Federal science at blinding speed.
I tend to be very cynical about “indigenous knowledge” and “sacred spaces”. Deb Haaland acted like a generic green Democrat who was incidentally Native American.
And isn’t there a prohibition against an establishment of religion?
Big cleanup job. Gonna take a while, but I like the start, as here with NASA.
MBS says the Saudis will invest $600 billion in US. Stellantis will reopen Belvedere in IL. Just told WEF manufacture in US for US market or face certain tariffs. Rubio to Central America next week. SoftBank, Open AI, and Oracle to invest $500 billion in AI. Southern border closed—no more pretend asylum BS.
All NSC detainees already returned to their agencies—no more Vindman bs.
First 14A birthright citizenship lawsuit already got this morning the first official US response, better than I had expected by relying on an 1866 law concerning Native American born on tribal reservation citizenship that preceded the 14A by 2 years that clarifies what Congress must have meant.
And we are not yet done with full day three.
Holy smoke. What a meaningless word salad of platitudes. Who wrote that? Kamala Harris?
I am curious to see what happens (or has happened) to Peter Kalmus. He represents himself in his X profile ( @ClimateHuman ) as a “climate scientist” but it no longer says NASA.
At the JPL website it still comes up with this.
https://higgs.jpl.nasa.gov/people/pkalmus/
A recent article in the Journal Science it discussed the mistreatment of indigenous peoples animal remains (BONES) at universities eg. Horse bones are sacred to some tribes
It’s good to see that the Kerbal Space Program (AKA NASA) is being updated! I look forward to great things!
Speaking of NASA, I’m very curious to know what might happen to Gavin Schmidt at GISS given President Trump’s tendency to disbelieve the climate alarmist narrative.
I would suggest to him that he start keeping his mouth shut about the climate issue lest he end up being forced to quit or gets fired for continuing to spout off about a supposed “climate crisis.”
That is a far cry from the original charter of NASA:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/85/hr12575/summary
Which has at the top of the list of goals:
The thing I’ve encountered and find annoying is the acknowledgment at the start of public meetings of the prior occupants (tribes) of the land. Most often the person reading the statement cannot pronounce the words correctly and seemingly has zero concern. If I got the chance to insert a couple of false references, say to a clan from Africa or the Amazon basin, would the reader notice? I think not.
Full disclosure: I have friends of the Yakama Nation and live on land that they ceded to the US in 1855.
Unrelated. I do find the creation legends, stories, and myths of the tribes quite interesting. These differ considerable across North America. That is not to imply that other places on Earth do not have equally interesting legends, stories, and so on.
The pre-Columbian North American Indians were basically a late paleolithic age culture.
They lived in small tribes which were in a continuous state of war with each other, they had no metal, no written language, had no real cities, hadn’t yet invented the wheel, had only crude living structures, and in the southwest and maybe other places they practiced occasional cannibalism.
In Mexico, Central America and Peru they had advanced to the cultural level of early Mesopotamia, and they might have gone further if they had been left undisturbed.
But the North American Indians sure as H*** were not some kind of wise advanced civilization with great spiritual knowledge. That’s just BS.
Indigenous knowledges = the true NET ZERO. Interestingly, it IS written” knowledges”, which my spell checker does not recognize. Each indigenous knowledge is independent of reality. It was the late 19th century before bloodletting really stopped.
Why did those societies so slowly progress? Because of “knowledges” which were contrary to reality. The shaman, witch doctor, held a lot of power; the power of superstition. The FORMER administration was perfused with superstition. The new one, not so much.
Rumour has it that Hopi artefacts were found in Mare Tranquilitatis. Just saying ….
It looks like they’ve reverted back to the original webpage. I clicked on what is supposed to be the “Under Construction” page and I’m not getting it. It would be awesome if what you showed were true.
Applied Science instead of Political “Science” or Lawfare – what’s not to like?
Oh to have an applied science and engineering push generated during the Kennedy years in the 1960’s. His Rice University speech is a classic, regardless of whether you were red or blue.
Note how everyone was seated outside in the Texas heat – sweating profusely and fanning themselves – a different generation.
Very nice, the government needs a lot of help, mainly getting the hell out of our business. They have done far too much damage already.
Government at it’s finest. NASA will consider indigenous knowledge in space science but California and the US Forest Service refuses to consider controlled burns of overgrown brush, a technique used by indigenous people.
Why has NASA been allowed to be involved in things more properly under the purview of NOAA?
First, NASA should leave well enough alone. Their job is scientific knowledge not any kind of “justice” to past peoples.
Second, my adopted son is a Native American tribal member. I have learned a lot from participating in rituals and education. Their creation stories are allegorical, not necessarily fact based truth. Not dissimilar to Genisis.
Lastly, their culture respects the land and its denizens. You know what, that isn’t far from what farmers and ranchers respect either. Their culture is different based upon their experience from the past. We should learn what respecting the land truly means. It doesn’t mean no prescribed burning, covering the land with solar panels, or building large homes on acres of land only for what money can be made from increased population.
Call me when they close Gavin Schmidt’s climate hysteria propaganda shop in New York City which is misleadingly named Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The name is misleading because all they do is climate hysteria propaganda. It doesn’t study space or rocketry (which they are opposed to because fossil fuel).
In the 1992 movie, Medicine Man, Sean Connery was researching to find a cure for cancer.
The bulldozes making a road destroyed the ant colony. The cure for cancer was lost.
While fictional, it does point out that there is much we do not know. A review of indigenous knowledge could be fruitful.
That said, it is not behooving to NASA to conduct such research.
Indigenous speech, is sometimes very direct.
“Police Motu”, Papua/New Guinea. “Kai” – food; “Kai -Kai” – to kill.
It’s called ‘the blob’ for a reason. A decapitating strike leaves it unchanged.
I have no particular issue with Ms Boykin, but I also have no reason to think her new job as a ‘senior executive’ is anything more than the old job operating under a different name. I hope I’m wrong.
But if I’m not, it just proves the job of draining the swamp requires much more than just a Presidential Executive Order.